Specialty Diving Courses in CT

The thought of dipping below the surface at night seems mysterious, yet so alluring. Although you’ve been scuba diving at a site many times before, at night you drop into a whole new world and watch it come to life under the glow of your dive light. The scene changes as day creatures retire and nocturnal organisms emerge. If you’ve wondered what happens underwater after the sun goes down, sign up for the PADI Night Diver Specialty course.

Scuba diving at night teaches you to focus on what you can see in your light’s beam, on controlling your buoyancy by feel, on staying with your buddy and on paying attention to details you may overlook during the day. During three night dives, you’ll practice:

• Light handling and communication techniques.
• Entering, exiting and navigating in the dark.
• Identifying how plants and animals differ or change behavior at night.

This Speciality is designed to extend your knowledge and skills in the use of navigational tools and techniques for Sport Diving. It develops the knowledge required to plan, prepare and analyse for your dive to reduce stress and confusion, allowing you to enhance your diving experience.
This speciality can be run for any certified diver who has the equivalent of RAID Open Water 20.

THE PROGRAM EMPLOYS THE FOLLOWING

• The difference night and limited visibility makes to diving.
•. Introduction to different tools and techniques used for night and limited visibility diving.

Much of the world’s best scuba diving is accessible only by boat. Whether you’ve never made a boat dive or you’ve logged dozens, the PADI Boat Diver Specialty course will benefit you because boats in various parts of the world do things differently. Scuba diving from a boat is fun and relatively easy because you usually descend directly onto your dive site.

The PADI Boat Diver course will expand your knowledge about boats from small inflatables to large liveaboards. You’ll gain experience scuba diving by completing two dives from a boat in your local area and learn:

• Boat terminology.
• Boat diving procedures and etiquette, including how to enter and exit, and where to stow your gear.
• Boating safety, including how to locate safety equipment.

This Specialty is designed to expand your knowledge of boats and diving from a boat..

This specialty can be run for any certified diver who has the equivalent of RAID Open Water 20.

THE PROGRAM EMPLOYS THE FOLLOWING

• Introduction to different forms of boat diving and equipment requirements.
• Introduction to boating terminology and key components that make up a boat.
• Skills and techniques for safely entering and exiting the water via a boat.

Excellent buoyancy control is what defines skilled scuba divers. You’ve seen them underwater. They glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover almost as if by thought. They more easily observe aquatic life without disturbing their surroundings. You can achieve this, too. The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course improves the buoyancy skills you learned as a new diver and elevates them to the next level.

During two scuba dives, you’ll learn how to:

• Determine the exact weight you need, so you’re not too light or too heavy.
• Trim your weight system and scuba gear so you’re perfectly balanced in the water.
• Streamline to save energy, use air more efficiently and move more smoothly through the water.
• Hover effortlessly in any position – vertical or horizontal.

This Speciality is designed to extend your knowledge and skills in the use of navigational tools and techniques for Sport Diving. It develops the knowledge required to plan, prepare and analyse for your dive to reduce stress and confusion, allowing you to enhance your diving experience.
This speciality can be run for any certified diver who has the equivalent of RAID Open Water 20.

THE PROGRAM EMPLOYS THE FOLLOWING

• Types of Underwater Navigation.
• Introduction to different tools and techniques used for underwater navigation.

Understanding scuba equipment function, being able to properly maintain your equipment and being able to set it up correctly is essential for comfortable diving.

PROGRAM CONTENT

The course academic development covering all the basic scuba equipment. There is a practical component as well.

There are 3 parts to this session:
• Practical workshop on equipment
• Confined water session for setup and configuration
• Optional open water dive for practice•

This RAID course is designed to teach persons the understanding and working knowledge about High pressure compressor units as well as how to use the unit for filling air tanks (compress air for breathing) in the high pressure ranges PN 200 and PN 300 bar.

Prerequisites:
Non Certified Divers – wanting to learn to dive with a drysuit shall complete the basic diver course:
Open Circuit Level 1 and this Drysuit Speciality
OR
Rebreather Level 1, Rebreather Speciality and Drysuit Speciality

Certified Divers – from another recognized training agency wanting to extend their experience to dive with a drysuit and enter the RAID training program shall complete:
The Level of training chosen by the diver (eg Level 2 or 3 etc)
AND
This Drysuit Speciality